Argumentative Essay On Eugenics

This is a discussion of how language structures our experience especially with relation to others. However, language is also not a sufficient principle since it is already invented. Context of time and history are important in language, therefore already invented words taken out of context are not sufficient for the conception of normal. So even though language helps express experience, its also not sufficient in defining normal. Traditional bioethics places the individual as the center point of health and medicine. Health is conceptualized with the autonomy of the individual and their choices rather than looking at other factors that might constitute the definition of health. Traditional bioethics chooses to secure the autonomy of individuals
Eugenics hopes to conceptualize the norm of a body so that enhancement and interventions can improve this norm. Eugenics calls for the application of enhancement medicine to alter the definition of norm. Eugenics has been the cause of enhancements in beings that changes the nature of being to be “super” and meet demands that otherwise wouldn’t have been possible. But this would mean that the body needs to have a pre-established norm that would apply to all beings which is inherently against critical bioethics. Enhancement in eugenics aims to be therapeutic to the normal conception of human nature however these would challenge the autonomous life of individuals. More so, deviations from the norm would call for enhancements which might not be the most beneficial. Eugenics hopes to establish interventions and enhancements that improve normal functions. This view is crucially opposed in critical bioethics. Critical bioethics focuses on phenomenology and the subject therefore the subjects relation to their environment and body is more important in medical practice. The plurality of lived experiences of beings is more important to critical bioethics. Individual choices and environment should be emphasized rather than enhancing the conceptual norm. Therefore, eugenics is incompatible with critical bioethics since it encloses the body in a specific box. Critical bioethics argue instead that enhancements made to normal bodies should include the social context of the